Isbn: 9789004257719 - a new apophaticism: augustine and the redemption of signs (studies in systematic theology, band 14) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. KlappentextIn A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. The central hypothesis is that God-language has the purpose of transforming human beings into better sig.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its power to effect redemptive change; and his De doctrina christiana is drawn upon for its semiotics. Together they make way for the hypothesis that God-language transforms human beings into better signs of God.…